Let's say that downloaded a file in chrome (or any browser). The i click "Show in folder" and it opens in firefox! Same thing when I try to open folders with Gnome-Do (a search based launcher) and with Cairo Dock. Pretty much when I open folders thought applications. Where can I change back so that they are opened in the File Manager?

Chrome opens everything in a browser as far as I can see (although on my system it opens in Chrome itself not FF) and I don't know of any way around it. As for the other problems have a look at this and see if it helps:

Hey Viking777. I tried the two two tips you suggested in your second post. But neither of them got Gnome-Do working right for me. Any other ideas. I am running debian, gnome, and openbox and gnome-do always opens my folders in epiphany (i dont even use epiphany), it did the same thing in ubuntu with openbox, but with chrome. So annoying.

The fix won't work unless Nautilus is your file manager, which it isn't if you are using LXDE. Even then I don't know if it will work for gnome-do. I don't use gnome-do any more, but when I did I remember it had the same sort of problems.Chrome seems to be a different problem altogether. On Mint 10 if I go to the downloads folder in Chrome and select 'open in folder' it opens nautilus as it should. On LMDE it just opens a new browser tab, never figured out why. The fix that I gave you certainly doesn't influence Chrome in any way, it just does its own thing.

Last edited by viking777 on Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:24 am, edited 1 time in total.

Hi viking. Not sure if you were talking to me. If so, just to let you know, i am using nautilus. It is set to handle desktop and autostart in openbox and i love Gnome-Do, cant abide by Synapse, its too fussy, have been using Kupfer whilst Do plays up, but would love to get Do working again.Have been reading about, what little there is, on the the topic and heard others mention checking $ xdg-open '/home/ ... I tried this with one of my folders and it opened it in epiphany, though from what i understand xdg is designed to open stuff in browser, so, perhaps a false-start.

Sorry for not being active here but...I use Linux Mint 10 Gnome (64). I'm not sure what else to say to define the version.Use nautilus...Checked both files you mentioned but the exact line was already there.Any more ideas? This is REALLY (I mean really, really) annoying and it used to work and then... it didn't.

To Prooz. Your issue sounds like a similar issue to the one i was experiencing, albeit in a different context. Out of interest what happens when you enter:

#xdg-open '/home/you_user_name/Downloads' (for example) ? Dragging and dropping the folder icon into the terminal, after entering the command, saves you typing out the destination, you may know.

Initially when i ran a command like this it would open the destination folder in browser, not nautilus. Discovering this allowed me to focus my web searching and eventually led to my solution, installing "ibfile-mimeinfo-perl". That particular solution might not work for you, but realising "xdg-open" is miss-firing could be a step in the right direction. Editing ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list wasnt working for me either, which is unfortunate as Gnome-Do also refuses to open up notes in Leafpad, worked fine in Gedit, tried to alter "defaults.list" to force it to call Leafpad, which it now does, but a blank page. Lame. Obviously im almost there, but... After all that im using Kupfer now. On the bright side its faster.

Hey, wait a minute freshlyminted's excellent post allowed me to look in what might be the right direction and this is what I have come up with, it works for me anyway (and I have learned something as well )

Wow, sweet. Not sure how you got from A to B. But, thats a great command. Caused me to dust off Gnome-Do and see if i could effect it behaviour, as regards Leafpad. So, i ran a text file through it and selected "1)" (Leafpad).

Gnome-Do now opens the actual file in Leafpad, and not a blank Leafpad page, when its name is entered. However, it only works for files that have one word in the title, more than that and i get a blank page.

Oh well, iv come to appreciate Kupfer, as a launcher, for its speed, if not its looks.

Gnome-Do was so snappy in Ubuntu, but in Openbox running on Debian, one time out of five when it is called there is a lag, during which there is only a white block on the middle of the screen, before it fully renders. Only a second mind you, but the point of a launcher is to be snappy.

Still, weird though right? Only one word title, files open no problem. Something remediable in ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list me thinks, as before editing that file, replacing Gedit entries with Leafpad, Do wouldnt call Leafpad at all. I just have no idea what to enter there to fix it.

That IS a gr8 command However it didn't work I got the option of opening with nautilus or other. I chose nautilus and it opened the folder. But now when I try to open a folder throught Gnome-Do, Cairo-Dock, or whatever it doesn't open at all

Let's say that downloaded a file in chrome (or any browser). The i click "Show in folder" and it opens in firefox!

That part of the problem is fixed (least it is for me). I cannot possibly help you with gnome-do or cairo-dock since I don't even have those programs installed. I am sure that gnome-do must have a user forum somewhere have you tried asking there?

EDIT. I can help you with one thing though. I remember quite clearly there were two reasons I uninstalled gnome-do. The first was because I hardly ever used it and the second was that when I did, it either failed to open documents at all or it opened them in the wrong program. That must have been at least a year ago, so obviously nothing has changed much since then. Why don't you try this 'Kupfer' that freshlyminted is talking about that seems to work for him.